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We present Very Large Array observations of twelve late M and L dwarfs in the Solar neighborhood. The observed sources were chosen to cover a wide range of physical characteristics - spectral type, rotation, age, binarity, and X-ray and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Berger

Rapidly rotating late M dwarfs are observed in two different branches of magnetic activity, although they operate in the same stellar parameter range. Current empirical evidence indicates that M dwarfs with spectral types ranging from M3 /…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Giuseppina Nigro , Francesco Berrilli , Giuseppe Bono , Dario Del Moro , Luca Giovannelli , Valentina Penza , Raffaele Reda

Reliable determination of Rotation-Activity Correlation (RAC's) depends on precise measurements of the following stellar parameters: $T_{eff}$, parallax, radius, metallicity, and rotational speed $v\sin i$. In this paper, our goal is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 E. R. Houdebine , D. J. Mullan , F. Paletou , M. Gebran

We present spectroscopic rotation velocities (v sin i) for 56 M dwarf stars using high resolution HET HRS red spectroscopy. In addition we have also determined photometric effective temperatures, masses and metallicities ([Fe/H]) for some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J S Jenkins , L W Ramsey , H R A Jones , Y Pavlenko , J Gallardo , J R Barnes , D J Pinfield

We present the results from a spectroscopic study of 1080 nearby active M dwarfs, selected by correlating the 2MASS and ROSAT catalogs. We have derived the spectral types and estimated distances for all of our stars. The spectral types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Basmah Riaz , John E. Gizis , James Harvin

Fully convective M dwarfs typically remain rapidly rotating and magnetically active for billions of years, followed by an abrupt and mass-dependent transition to slow rotation and quiescence. A robust understanding of this process is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-21 Emily K. Pass , David Charbonneau , David W. Latham , Perry Berlind , Michael L. Calkins , Gilbert A. Esquerdo , Jessica Mink

Based on analysis of photometric observations of nearby M type stars obtained with ASAS, 31 periodic variables were detected. The determined periods are assumed to be related to rotation periods of the investigated stars. Among them 10 new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-16 M. Kiraga , K. Stepien

Since identifying the gap in the H-R Diagram (HRD) marking the transition between partially and fully convective interiors, a unique type of slowly pulsating M dwarf has been proposed. These unstable M dwarfs provide new laboratories in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Wei-Chun Jao , Todd J. Henry , Russel J. White , Azmain H. Nisak , Hodari-Sadiki Hubbard-James , Leonardo A. Paredes

A moderate resolution spectroscopic survey of Fleming's sample of 54 X-ray selected M dwarfs with photometric distances less than 25 pc is presented. Radial and rotation velocities have been measured by fits to the H-alpha profiles. Radial…

Magnetic activity and rotation are related to the age of low-mass main sequence stars. To further constrain these relations, we study a sample of 574 main sequence stars members of common proper motion pairs with white dwarfs, identified…

We aim to investigate the presence of signatures of magnetic cycles and rotation on a sample of 71 early M-dwarfs from the HADES RV programme using high-resolution time-series spectroscopy of the Ca II H & K and Halpha chromospheric…

M dwarfs remain active over longer timescales than their Sunlike counterparts, with potentially devastating implications for the atmospheres of their planets. However, the age at which fully-convective M dwarfs transition from active and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Emily K. Pass , David Charbonneau , Jonathan M. Irwin , Jennifer G. Winters

The time scales of variability in active M dwarfs can be related to their various physical parameters. Thus, it is important to understand such variability to decipher the physics of these objects. In this study, we have performed the low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Vipin Kumar , A. S. Rajpurohit , Mudit K. Srivastava , José G. Fernández-Trincado , A. B. A. Queiroz

I present the results of a multiyear survey of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, at high spectral resolution. The spectra were gathered with the HIRES echelle at the Keck Observatory. Some of these objects are stellar and others are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Gibor Basri

In this work we examine M dwarf rotation rates at a range of ages to establish benchmarks for Mdwarf gyrochronology. This work includes a sample of 713 spectroscopically-classified M0-M8 dwarfs with new rotation rates measured from K2 light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Mark Popinchalk , Jacqueline K. Faherty , Rocio Kiman , Jonathan Gagné , Jason L. Curtis , Ruth Angus , Kelle L. Cruz , Emily L. Rice

At fast rotation rates the coronal activity of G- and K-type stars has been observed to "saturate" and then decline again at even faster rotation rates -- a phenomenon dubbed "super-saturation". In this paper we investigate coronal activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. D. Jeffries , R. J. Jackson , K. R. Briggs , P. A. Evans , J. P. Pye

Close M-dwarf binaries and higher multiples allow the investigation of rotational evolution and mean magnetic flux unbiased from scatter in inclination angle and age since the orientation of the spin axis of the components is most likely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Shulyak , A. Seifahrt , A. Reiners , O. Kochukhov , N. Piskunov

(Abridged) Understanding stellar activity in M dwarfs is crucial for the physics of stellar atmospheres as well as for ongoing radial velocity exoplanet programmes. Despite the increasing interest in M dwarfs, our knowledge of the…

M dwarfs are active stars that exhibit variability in chromospheric emission and photometry at short and long timescales, including long cycles that are related to dynamo processes. This activity also impacts the search for exoplanets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 L. Mignon , N. Meunier , X. Delfosse , X. Bonfils , N. C. Santos , T. Forveille , G. Gaisné , N. Astudillo-Defru , C. Lovis , S. Udry

We present a sample of 824 solar and late-type stars with X-ray luminosities and rotation periods. This is used to study the relationship between rotation and stellar activity and derive a new estimate of the convective turnover time. From…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nicholas J. Wright , Jeremy J. Drake , Eric E. Mamajek , Gregory W. Henry